Early Information Technology Program High School Teachers' Training and Continual Professional Development

Abstract

The School of Information Technology (SoIT) established an Early IT program where the six, first-year IT courses of the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT) degree are taught in the local schools by certified high school teachers. These courses (e.g., fundamentals of IT, networking, programming, database, web development, system administration) are dual credit and allow high school students to graduate from high school with the first year of the SoIT BSIT degree complete. A competency-based educational graduate certificate was developed to train and certify high school teachers to teach these college classes at their local schools.